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Recent Examples of crosier
Some of these coins feature a bishop holding a crozier in his right hand, as noted in the press release.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
World & Nation Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years
Dec. 6, 2024
The ceremony began with Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors, tapping them three times with his fire-scarred crosier.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosier
Noun
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Against Maduro and his crooks, who turn our country into a humanitarian crisis.—
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The man attempted to intercept the hulking crook, who punched the victim in the face, cops said.—
Noun
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As players shoot around, Jake cradles a ball before blowing past an imaginary defender to hammer home a dunk.—
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In 2022, the FBI investigated a 14-year-old Sturdivant after an ISIS member from the United Kingdom contacted him via a PlayStation and told him to dress in all black and attack his neighbor with a hammer and knife.—
Noun
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That's the day that leadership will drop the gavel to begin proceedings and lawmakers will start holding meetings.—
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Louijeune won’t hand over the gavel to the new president either.—
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Lopatin used fast, percussive strikes to keep the score melodic, incorporating mallet strikes to mirror the ping-pong balls.—
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Harry sustained a hand injury from a mallet.—
Noun
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Bring Trekking Poles Bring a walking stick or hiking poles to help reduce the balance challenge and encourage your upper-body muscles to take on some of the stress your knees may otherwise field, Sommer says.—
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Investigators recovered some of the clothing and a walking stick that Silva was seen wearing and carrying in the surveillance footage in a parking lot accessible on foot from the Eastern Bank ATM that exploded.—
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In 2024, the beetle was discovered in several canyons in Santa Clarita, putting it just 14 miles from the roughly 600,000 coast live oaks in the Santa Monica Mountains.—
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Meanwhile, inhabitants of the Kalahari Desert have relied on the toxins harvested from beetle larvae.—
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The half ended with the Free Jacks once again putting the Sabercats under pressure, trying to force their way over the tryline through a rolling maul, and twice failing to score.—
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Minutes later, Hanover scored back-to-back tries with near identical mauls down the sideline.—
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“Crosier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosier. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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